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| Topic Started: Mar 4 2010, 01:41:27 PM (1,880 Views) | |
| Bindie | Apr 25 2010, 08:22:40 PM Post #21 |
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I've seen it in Canberra, too. /shrugs |
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| pastrycook-136 | Apr 26 2010, 01:17:00 AM Post #22 |
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I've seen people walking around barefoot both indoors and outdoors here in Melbourne too. In the supermarket and Chapel St. in Windsor with plenty of glinting broken glass about comes to mind. When I see adults do this I just think sooner or later they will step on broken glass or something else sharp or gross like dog poop and learn their lesson. What really surprises is parents who sometimes let their young children go barefoot in these places. How will they feel if their child cuts their foot on broken glass in public??
Edited by pastrycook-136, Apr 26 2010, 01:21:21 AM.
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| crapola | Apr 26 2010, 01:04:16 PM Post #23 |
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back to uggs... a friend in alaska just posted a pic of herself on facebook... nice black dkny hoody, short white skirt... and knee high black uggs... |
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| AmbroseChick | Apr 26 2010, 04:02:29 PM Post #24 |
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is she American or Australian? That sounds like quite the fashion statement! |
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| crapola | Apr 26 2010, 06:20:30 PM Post #25 |
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she's very much an american. when i went to live in AK, i took my uggies with me and wore them all the time. even fell over in the snow in them, lol. i wore them with my jeans tucked in. sadly, i had to throw them out when i wore through the big toe area of both of them (which is something i do to every single pair of shoes and socks i have ever owned, except for thongs, haha)... |
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| Jaz | Apr 28 2010, 11:33:56 PM Post #26 |
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Well from an Aussie perspective.....we see them as slippers NOT as shoes/boots. So yeah, people who wear them outdoors are often seen as 'rough'..or as Melbournites say BOGANS! lol But each to their own 
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| caspercorb | May 2 2010, 12:41:47 AM Post #27 |
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I see HEAPS of people wearing uggs around the city. That being said, once I read this thread, I started watching who exactly was doing all the ugg-wearing in public... It's the uni students, paired with shorts or a mini and tourists (who probably just bought them to take back home where they are cool). Now I have taken them off my want list and spent my ugg $ on some great new black leather boots. I live here now, I'll try not to dress like a tourist Though yes, I just bought some ugg-like slippers, cause it's getting cold!
Edited by caspercorb, May 2 2010, 12:42:51 AM.
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| AmbroseChick | May 18 2010, 09:11:12 PM Post #28 |
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By the way... my old comfy ugg boots have finally arrived back in Australia from the US... but hubby has said that I'm not allowed to wear them outside LOL I'll look like a bogun? I'm assuming thats Aussie for hick or hillbilly? |
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| crapola | May 18 2010, 09:16:40 PM Post #29 |
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bogan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan this paragraph refers to me, especially the heavy metal part : "The term's popular usage emerged in Melbourne's outer-western and -northern suburbs in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a non-pejorative term, used by fans of Heavy Metal and Hard Rock music to describe themselves, and was used almost interchangeably with "head-banger". Bogans typically wore "acid wash" jeans, sheepskin moccasins, and band T-shirts; had "mullet" style haircuts; and lived in the suburbs. The usage of the term has since changed to indicate someone generally suburban and poorly educated, and has little relation to the original usage which was specific to Heavy Metal and Hard Rock fans. Also, the usage has changed to include females. Female bogans were known as "mocca chicks" for the sheepskin moccasins which were customarily worn as footwear." Edited by crapola, May 18 2010, 09:19:30 PM.
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